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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> writes:

[considering .csv files and how to process them]

> Brings up the thought of how, ASCII has a bunch of control
> characters, but generally only a small number of them are used:
>   \r, \n, \t, \b
>   \e, \a, \v, \f (sometimes / rarely)
>
> For CSV, we used ',' (a printable ASCII character) for something
> that (theoretically) could have used \x1E (Record Separator).

That would have been a horrible decision.